Curator

Martine Neddam

Martine Neddam (France) is an artist based in Amsterdam. In her work she uses language as raw material: speech acts, modes of address, texts in public space are embodied in objects, sculptures, installations and large scale public commissions. Since 1996 she has created virtual characters on internet who lead an autonomous life: Mouchette, a young girl of 13, David Still, who offers visitors to use his identity, and XiaoQian, a Chinese artist who creates virtual characters. She is also visiting professor at the department of Visual Arts of UQAM Montreal, and professor at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
For this program Martine Neddam has invited:

Guests

Annie Abrahams

(Netherlands) a Dutch artist and biologist based in France, questions the possibilities and limits of communication in general and more specifically investigates its modes under networked conditions. She is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. She has performed and exhibited her work extensively in France and at many international venues. (Centre Pompidou, Paris, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, US and Furtherfield Gallery, London).

Josephine Bosma

(Netherlands) is a journalist and critic who lives and works in Amsterdam. She has focused on art within the context of the Internet since 1993. While initially making radio shows and reports, her writing on net art and net culture has appeared in numerous magazines, books and catalogues, both on and offline, since 1996. Her book ‘Nettitudes — Let's Talk Net Art' will be published by NAi publishers in April 2011.

Călin Dan

(Romania) is an Amsterdam based video maker, artist and playwright with a background in art history and art theory. His work has been showcased at international film festivals (Osnabrück, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, La Rochelle), art biennales (Venice, Sao Paolo, Istanbul, Berlin, Sydney), museums and galleries in Europe, the USA and Australia. He received the media prize of the Split Film Festival (2000), and the prize of Videonale Bonn (2001). Călin's work is in various public collections throughout Europe. His videos are distributed currently by Video Data Bank, Chicago.

Praneet Soi

(India) Soi's work is generated as an outcome of his constant search, journey and observation of cultural contrasts between two places — Amsterdam, where he now lives, and his native Kolkata. He has exhibited at the Gwanju Biennale (2008), the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (2009), the Vilnius Triennale (2010). He has been chosen as one of the four artists representing India at the Venice Biennale in 2011.

Michael Uwemedimo

(UK) is a London based writer and curator, a lecturer in Film at Roehampton University and a founding member of the film collective Vision Machine. With Vision Machine he has been developing a performance-based historiography of political violence. Through a series of long-running film projects with survivors and perpetrators of state-sponsored violence, he has been exploring a working process in which the production methods and forms of fiction are combined with the techniques and engagements of documentary. His current documentary feature, Flow, is in pre-production in the Niger Delta.